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Over the years, Mick Foley has had some amazing matches with some of the biggest stars in sports entertainment. He did not have a very long professional wrestling career, but even in a short time period he became a huge fan favorite. He started to on recognition from the WWE Universe back in 1996 when he was working under the ring name Mankind.
He became extremely over among the WWE Universe after his life threatening spot at the King of the Ring event, where he had a Hell in a Cell match with the Undertaker. During his early career, he was promoted as a mid card only, but after this event, he slowly elevated himself towards the main event status. He even won the WWE World Championship three times in total.
Mick Foley revealed his favorite match of all time
But his career was cut short due to back to back injuries and his hardcore style of wrestling. From the year 2000, he could not work in the ring as a full timer either. But even after working as a part timer, he provided great matches with some of the biggest stars like Edge and Randy Orton. He even had a short career in TNA Wrestling.
Recently, Mick Foley was asked which was his favorite match of all time. He remembered his match against Randy Orton from 2004 Backlash event. It was a Hardcore match certain defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship in this match too. Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on the Insight Podcast, Mick Foley explained the following;
“My favorite match was Backlash against Randy Orton. Crazy thing is, if he has a new favorite, I don’t want to know about it. He’s technically, probably had better matches. But the idea of being in that spot, people ask me, you will just say you made somebody. No one person makes anybody. It takes a lot of people, a lot of factors, and even if the bases were loaded for Randy, it’s still up to him to knock it out of the park.
Mick Foley addressed his Hardcore match with Randy Orton from Backlash 2004 as his all time favorite match
"And he did, and one of the wisest decisions I ever made, much wiser than working at the Huntsville auto show the day before my street fight with Triple H, much wiser than catching a red eye and getting into New York City at 6 am for the Royal Rumble. I did a lot of stupid things that way, as far as travel, I actually canceled a talk at a community college so that I could come in the night before, as opposed to the day of the show.
“I like people to be able to read between the lines, rather than just spill the [beans]. But in this case, I think it’s beneficial to know Randy came up to my room, and for only the second time in my entire career, I had an A through Z plan, and I’ll never forget, he was just taking it all in.
Mick Foley continued, "I’m getting the tingles here because you’re talking about a moment that changed his career, and I don’t know if we could have had that type of match if I’d gone through that speaking engagement. And the other key factor is that Michael Hayes heard some of the things we want to do. He goes, ‘You’re going to need more time.’ So instead of rushing through, we had time to let things breathe. And it just felt really good. Even though I had many trials and tribulations getting back home.
Randy Orton defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Mick Foley in this match
"My luggage was delayed for four hours. I did throw up in the parking lot of Tim Hortons in Edmonton, because my brain had jogged a little bit, but I made it back in time for Raw the next night, and it was like the fans looked at him like he was a completely different guy.
"And it really made me feel good. Now, they turned him babyface in two weeks, which I thought was a big mistake, but it was hard not to like somebody who’d been through that type of ordeal.” Said Mick Foley regarding his all time favorite match.
